DID GOD MAKE A MISTAKE?

Did God make a mistake by putting Adam and Eve in the Garden where they wound up making their own choice--the wrong one? (See Genesis 3:6.)

Did God have to confess failure by the Flood, in that He had to wipe out all Mankind for its wickedness? (See Genesis 6:5-7.)

Was the Tower of Babel a total disaster, and was the confusion of tongues a catastrophe? Or was it necessary to accomplish God's purpose to humble and scatter Man over the face of the Earth? (See Genesis 11:1-9.)
Was it a mistake when Moses killed an Egyptian and had to flee for his life, and ended up living for forty years in the wilderness learning to be a humble shepherd tending sheep? (See Exodus 2.)
Wasn't that a terrible setback to the cause and the deliverance of his people? Or was it necessary for Moses to go into exile to learn the lessons God had to teach him to make him the man he needed to be to deliver his people?--Totally dependent on God, not himself.
Did God make a mistake when He chose Saul to be king of Israel considering the way Saul turned out? Was Saul a failure? Or did he accomplish God's purpose in training the king God was really after, David? (See 1 Samuel.)

God gets some of His greatest victories out of seeming defeat, and He causes the wrath of Man to praise Him!
Did God make a mistake when He let David fall for Bathsheba, and fall from grace in the eyes of the kingdom, fall from the throne at the hand of his own rebellious son Absalom, and depart in disgrace and scandal to another country with only a handful of his friends? (See 2 Samuel 15.)
Did David really fall downward or was this a fall upward? Sometimes God's way up is down--usually, in fact!--Just the opposite of what we think!
God loves to do things contrary to natural expectation, because that takes a miracle, and shows that it's God, and not Man!
David was humbled and the whole kingdom was humbled, and they were reminded it was only the Lord that made them what they were!
From that squeezing and twisting of David's life came forth the sweetness of the Psalms, and the fragrance of his praises to the Lord for His mercy!
It was all God and all grace, and none of himself or his own righteousness!--A lesson that's been an encouragement to other great sinners like me and you ever since!

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